Comment on Asshole Lab Rat
NaevaTheRat@vegantheoryclub.org 9 months agoI am not sure if you’re being deliberately contrarian to protect cognitive dissonance, or just wildly ignorant of how studies are conducted.
In the most literal sense a study is made of a battery of experiments that are each run across a series of tests. This is also just “an experiment” colloquially since they’re all testing the same area. They do not take rats from say a maze solving study, then give them diabetes for a different study, then give them a brain tumor before putting them in the decapicone (a real product).
I have stolen lab rats marked for death, I know what I’m talking about.
chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 months ago
I figured, but in the meme story this is pretty explicitly what is happening.
NaevaTheRat@vegantheoryclub.org 9 months ago
They’re probably studying metabolic syndromes on cognitive function.
chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 months ago
The diet experiment is presented as present tense. The cat smell experiment is described with “I once ran an experiment”, part of the speaker’s “thesis”, which is in the past. They are clearly keeping #42 alive to be used in totally separate research, in this fictional The Onion esque scenario.
NaevaTheRat@vegantheoryclub.org 9 months ago
It could be made up. Probably really.
NaevaTheRat@vegantheoryclub.org 9 months ago
huh, this story is really old and of dubious origin but afaict the original websites are down and I can’t be bothered going into archives.